The Making of Husbands
Christina Ramberg
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln & KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21.4 × 28.8 cm, English
Price: €30

“Containing, restraining, reforming, hurting, compressing, binding, transforming a lumpy shape into a clean smooth line,” is how American artist Christina Ramberg once described the drawings of corsets in her sketchbooks. Ramberg was one of the most intriguing painters to emerge within a generation of Chicago Imagists. She left a significant body of comic, formally elegant, erotically sinister paintings.

Produced on the occasion of The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 14 September, 2019–5 January 2020. Christina Ramberg’s work was shown alongside of other artistic positions such as Alexandra Bircken, Sara Deraedt, Gaylen Gerber, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Konrad Klapheck, Ghislaine Leung, Hans-Christian Lotz, Senga Nengudi, Ana Pellicer, Richard Rezac, Diane Simpson, Terre Thaemlitz, Kathleen White.

With texts from Dodie Bellamy, Kathrin Bentele, Jen George, Larne Abse Gogarty, Anna Gritz, Judith Russi Kirshner & Léon Kruijswijk.

#alexandrabircken #chicagoimagists #christinaramberg #dianesimpson #dodiebellamy #ghislaineleung #kathrinbentele #konradklapheck #kwinstituteforcontemporaryart #saraderaedt #senganengudi #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
You: Works and Writings 1964-1976
Ketty La Rocca
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2018, 224 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 30 cm, English
Price: €35

Initially, inspired by the experimental visual poetry of the mid-sixties, Ketty La Rocca critically investigated questions of communication in the age of mass media. She soon began addressing herself in her work as both an artist and a woman in a desire to find “another” language to express difference and the non-identical. She worked with collage, photography, video, text, drawing, and performance to develop a language of gestures and appropriated imagery of disempowerment. But her work was only granted the short time span of a decade’s production, during which she underwent a rapid artistic development with enormous energy and intelligence.

This book is the first international monograph on Ketty La Rocca’s works and writings. With texts by Emi Fontana, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Angelika Stepken and Ketty La Rocca

#2018 #concretepoetry #kettylarocca #revolverpublishing
Hölle
Rainald Goetz
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2019, folded poster in envelope (colour & b/w ill.), 59.5 × 63 cm, English
Price: €10

A poster with the transcript of Rainald Goetz’s presentation of the English translation of his novel Insane on the occasion of the exhibition opening for the group exhibition Hölle in September 2018 at Galerie Buchholz New York, featuring new or selected works by Lutz Bacher, Caleb Considine, Vincent Fecteau, Rainald Goetz, Sergej Jensen, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Monica Majoli, Albert Oehlen, Henrik Olesen, and Heji Shin.

#2019 #albertoehlen #calebconsidine #galeriebuchholz #hejishin #henrikolesen #juttakoether #lutzbacher #michaelkrebber #monicamajoli #rainaldgoetz #sergejjensen #vincentfecteau
Fontanel
Constantin Thun
Published by saxpublishers, Vienna, 2021, publication (192 pages), postcard, compliment card and colophon in cardboard box (colour & b/w ill.), 24 × 28.8 cm, English
Price: €40

The publication Fontanel includes photographs by Constantin Thun taken in the artist’s apartment between 2016 and 2021. As embedded in Thun’s artistic practice of creating frameworks, challenging them, and drawing from them, his apartment is also considered such a framework and serves as a resource for the creation of new works. The identity of the resulting works is the sum of the information collected and repeatedly edited from the living spaces—whether in the form of notes made, books read, a quick snack, observations of one’s surroundings. Like the spaces themselves, the illustrated book with its snapshots also functions as an archive of these ephemeral conditions. Edition of 200.

#2021 #constantinthun #saxpublishers
The Place to Be
Published by Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, 2008, exhibition booklet, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 21.6 × 27.4 cm, English / Dutch
Price: €4

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Place to Be at the Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, 3 April–1 June, 2008. Including artists gerlach en koop, Michael Stevenson and Jürgen Stolhans.

#2008 #gerlachenkoop #jurgenstolhans #michaelstevenson
Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach
Kai Althoff
Published by Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2021, 188 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 30.3 × 35.3 cm, English
Price: €60 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Kai Althoff Goes with Bernard Leach at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 7 October 2020–10 January, 2021.

German artist Kai Althoff (born 1966) is renowned as a figurative painter and creator of all-encompassing poetic environments that incorporate textiles, photographs, drawings and artifacts. Althoff draws from a wide range of literary, cultural and artistic influences in his work, and for his unique display at Whitechapel Gallery in London he pays tribute to British potter Bernard Leach (1887–1979), selecting around 20 of Leach’s ceramic vessels and tiles from the 1920s onward to be displayed in specially designed vitrines.

Edited by Emily Butler. Text by Dominic Eichler, Matthew Tyas. Interview by Iouri Podlatchikov, Kathy Halbreich.

#2021 #bernardleach #ceramics #dominiceichler #kaialthoff